From: richard (rpritz_at_rcn.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 19:03:59 EST
I have the same problem with my 570. My guess was a loose wire, but
sometimes it starts working while the machine is sitting on my desk, then
stops sometime later, without moving the unit. And the on screen utilities
works on my machine.
At 12:48 AM 2/6/2001 +0200, Dominique Pivard wrote:
>I have a problem with the internal speaker of my TP570: it seems to go on
>and off without any apparent reason. It's not a driver problem (I have
>W98, W2K and OS/2 installed, and when the speaker accepts to work, it does
>generate sounds in all of them), it's not a sound card problem (sound
>works OK with external speakers). When the speaker is off (which is most
>of the time), no sound is produced at all, not even the power on beep. And
>yes, I have tried Fn+PgUp.
>
>Is it a known weakness of the TP570 or a defect on my particular unit
>(bought used on eBay, but in fine condition in every other respect)?
>
>Not sure if it's related, but I haven't been able to install the On Screen
>Display utility (in W98/2K) on this particular machine. When I run
>setup.exe for the On Screen utility, I only see the InstallShield wizard
>screen for a few seconds, then it disappears. I do have the latest version
>(1.17a) of the ThinkPad utilities installed, and the latest BIOS too.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks, Dominique
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